Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Christof Warlich wrote: > > If this assumption is true, then why is the Debian build system (i.e. > > dpkg-buildpackage) not smart enough to simply ignore an existing +bX > > extension for Architecture: all binary packages? IMHO, this would simplify > > matters, as it would have avoided the pitfall that I stumbled into > > altogether. > > binNMUs are handled a layer above. sbuild will pass the correct options to > dpkg-buildpackage to build binNMUs. If you are interested in having binNMU > builds for your own infrastructure, you'll probably need to take a look at > the sbuild source to see how it is implemented.
Ok, so I'd better start using sbuild instead. Again, thanks for the valuable info and your time.
